Do You Get Easily Offended?

I'll start with a disclaimer: This article might offend you if any other AskMen.com article offended you in the past. But no matter what is said, some people are just easily offended. Are you one of those people? If so, you may want to consider the points discussed below.

a little background

Based on feedback from some readers, it's clear that we need to get some things straight. For example, a HowStuffWorks.com article featured on AskMen.com called "How Military Snipers Work" wasn't a manual on how to kill people; that would be wrong. Rather, it explained the ins and outs of the profession, including how snipers train and what their job entails.

Likewise, when we undertook the task of determining what women consider cheating, we weren't advocating the practice; we were simply telling you what was out there. And our tips on how to be a good liar could just as easily be used to spot a liar as they could to become one.

who gets offended and why?

People who are hypersensitive

Hypersensitive guys have been around forever, but their numbers have increased in the wake of political correctness. They get offended because they see life as having a certain set of rules. For example, knock-knock jokes are fine, but jokes about women's knockers are out. It's not that the joke or topic offends them; it's just that they play by the rules, while other guys get away with saying what they think.

People who think all comments are targeted at them

You know these guys; they're egomaniacs. It's one thing to be a little neurotic, but it's something else entirely to think that the world revolves around you. Most of the time, these guys get offended about comments that couldn't possibly be directed at them, but because they think the whole world is talking about them all the time , they believe every comment must be about them. These are the guys who tell you that you can't tell a Polish joke because a distant relative of theirs once considered taking a vacation in Poland.

People who don't read properly

I'll only say this once: You've got to read the whole article. If you don't read the whole article, don't complain. I don't even think the guys who freak out after reading only part of the article are easily offended. In fact, they might be reasonable guys. But because they fail to take that extra step to understand what they've read, they fly off the handle without justification.

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